Connor Fausto

Bio

Welcome to my page! I am an incoming PhD Student at the Keck School of Medicine studying Development, Stem Cells, and Regenerative Medicine. I am highly interested in understanding the genetic regulatory networks and molecular signal pathways that drive developmental patterns, and hope to use these pathways to treat chronic disease and congenital abnormalities.

Research Focus

I currently study human kidney development in the Lindström Lab, with an emphasis on the nephron (filtration unit of the kidney). I am specifically interested in the Wnt/β-catenin pathway’s link to the nascent nephron’s cell identities and morphogenetic features. I hope to leverage in vitro hiPSC kidney organoids, and multi-omic sequencing, and high-resolution imaging to create developmental blueprints for kidney organogenesis.

I am highly motivated to build off our past atlases of human1 and mouse2 nephrogenesis to create regenerative cell types for therapeutic discovery and renal replacement therapy.

Education 2

University of Southern California, Los Angeles 2023 -
Ph.D. in Development, Stem Cells, and Regenerative Medicine

University of Southern California, Los Angeles 2020 - 2021
M.Sc. in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

University of Southern California, Los Angeles 2016 - 2020
B.Sc. in Business Administration
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Technical Skills

Experimental Bioinformatic
hiPSC Cell Culture R
Directed Organoid Differentiation bash/linux/HPC
Immunofluorescent Staining sc/snRNA-seq Analyses
Microsurgery Dissection (<100µm) sc/snRNA-seq Analyses
Live Tissue Imaging sc/snATAC-seq Analyses
Confocal and Widefield Microscopy bulkRNA-seq Analyses
RNA Isolation and cDNA Synthesis FIJI
scRNA-seq library prep Imaris
Genotyping with PCR and Western blot

Connor Fausto

Bio

Welcome to my page! I am an incoming PhD Student at the Keck School of Medicine studying Development, Stem Cells, and Regenerative Medicine. I am highly interested in understanding the genetic regulatory networks and molecular signal pathways that drive developmental patterns, and hope to use these pathways to treat chronic disease and congenital abnormalities.

Research Focus

I currently study human kidney development in the Lindström Lab, with an emphasis on the nephron (filtration unit of the kidney). I am specifically interested in the Wnt/β-catenin pathway’s link to the nascent nephron’s cell identities and morphogenetic features. I hope to leverage in vitro hiPSC kidney organoids, and multi-omic sequencing, and high-resolution imaging to create developmental blueprints for kidney organogenesis.

I am highly motivated to build off our past atlases of human1 and mouse2 nephrogenesis to create regenerative cell types for therapeutic discovery and renal replacement therapy.

Education 2

University of Southern California, Los Angeles 2023 -
Ph.D. in Development, Stem Cells, and Regenerative Medicine

University of Southern California, Los Angeles 2020 - 2021
M.Sc. in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

University of Southern California, Los Angeles 2016 - 2020
B.Sc. in Business Administration
Click here for explanation

Technical Skills

Experimental Bioinformatic
hiPSC Cell Culture R
Directed Organoid Differentiation bash/linux/HPC
Immunofluorescent Staining sc/snRNA-seq Analyses
Microsurgery Dissection (<100µm) sc/snRNA-seq Analyses
Live Tissue Imaging sc/snATAC-seq Analyses
Confocal and Widefield Microscopy bulkRNA-seq Analyses
RNA Isolation and cDNA Synthesis FIJI
scRNA-seq library prep Imaris
Genotyping with PCR and Western blot